The deadline for claiming for completed NVQ units has now passed, but there is good news!  We have funds available for completed QCF credits. 

If you have staff members who are in the process of obtaining this new qualification, then please submit your claims in the same way as you did previously for NVQ's. 

If you need any help or advice, please contact this office and we will be happy to help. For more details of all funding and more information on WDF funding from Skills for Care click here. 

People have employability skills, but what are they?  Is it attitude, skills or something else?  What does that mean for you as a care provider?

 We would like some ideas of what you ask for when employing new people.

We would appreciate if you could send us your  thoughts and ideas by the 21st November to contribute to the report being produced for the Employment and Skills Board.

Enquiries@carefocussomerset.org

Care Matters is an online forum aimed at giving individuals involved in health and social care an opportunity to discuss topics of particular interest within certain geographical areas.  This website is the landing site for a dicussion forum.

The forum is open to anyone with an interest in health and/or social care, from service users to commissioners and care workers to heads of service - and is completely free!  Please click here for link to this valuable website.

Care home and hospital spot checks to follow CQC report - article from Nursing Times.net.

There is now a distinct split between “for the public” and “for professionals”

Click here for link to guidance on using new website.

A call to action from DAA Dementia Action Alliance - 
Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing our ageing society. There has been major progress in recent years in securing public and political commitment to responding more effectively to dementia. We now need to ensure that this commitment is turned into concerted action. With the publication of this National Dementia Declaration we announce the launch of a Dementia Action Alliance and a major plan of action to change the experience of living with dementia in England for good. The organisations signed up to this Declaration call on all families, communities and organisations to work with us to transform quality of life for the millions of people affected by dementia.

For a link to their website and further information, click here.

Well done to staff members from Wellington House who raised around £3,000 in their sponsored parachute jump, the majority of which will go to the alzheimers society. 

Click here for latest dates for your diary.

Managing Attendance and Employee Turnover

Caring for our future - engagement exercise

Taking on a new member of staff - free interactive toolkit

Information on Bogus CQC inspectors in the South East

Flu - Don’t wait until flu is circulating – protect yourself now

Information for assistive technology for people with dementia

New memory aid computer system

Self Care Week  -  14-20 November

'Green Bag' Schemes - Medicines Management Services. For link to poster and implementation tool kit, click  here.